J-Quizmaker

Lehrvideos erfreuen sich dank aktueller Entwicklungen im Bereich der Online-Lehre (Videoplattformen, MOOCs) auf der einen Seite und einer riesigen Auswahl sowie einer einfachen Produktion und Distribution auf der anderen Seite großer Beliebtheit bei der Wissensvermittlung. Trotzdem bringen Videos einen entscheidenden Nachteil mit sich, welcher in der Natur des Datenformats liegt. So sind die Suche nach konkreten Sachverhalten in einem Video sowie die semantische Aufbereitung zur automatisierten Verknüpfung mit weiteren spezifischen Inhalten mit hohem Aufwand verbunden. Daher werden die lernerfolg-orientierte Selektion von Lehrsegmenten und ihr Arrangement zur auf Lernprozesse abgestimmten Steuerung gehemmt. Beim Betrachten des Videos werden unter Umständen bereits bekannte Sachverhalte wiederholt bzw. können nur durch aufwendiges manuelles Spulen übersprungen werden. Selbiges Problem besteht auch bei der gezielten Wiederholung von Videoabschnitten. Als Lösung dieses Problems wird eine Webapplikation vorgestellt, welche die semantische Aufbereitung von Videos hin zu adaptiven Lehrinhalten ermöglicht: mittels Integration von Selbsttestaufgaben mit definierten Folgeaktionen können auf Basis des aktuellen Nutzerwissens Videoabschnitte automatisiert übersprungen oder wiederholt und externe Inhalte verlinkt werden. Der präsentierte Ansatz basiert somit auf einer Erweiterung der behavioristischen Lerntheorie der Verzweigten Lehrprogramme nach Crowder, die auf den Lernverlauf angepasste Sequenzen von Lerneinheiten beinhaltet. Gleichzeitig werden mittels regelmäßig eingeschobener Selbsttestaufgaben Motivation sowie Aufmerksamkeit des Lernenden nach Regeln der Programmierten Unterweisung nach Skinner und Verstärkungstheorie gefördert. Durch explizite Auszeichnung zusammengehöriger Abschnitte in Videos können zusätzlich die enthaltenden Informationen maschinenlesbar gestaltet werden, sodass weitere Möglichkeiten zum Auffinden und Verknüpfen von Lerninhalten geschaffen werden.

Modified Team-based Learning (TBL) as a tool in Problem-based learning (PBL); Observations and Lessons from Year One

Both TBL and PBL attempt to maximally engage the learner and both are designed to encourage interactive teaching / learning. PBL is student centered. TBL, in contrast, is typically instructor centered. The PBL Executive Committee of the UTHSC-Houston Medical School, in an attempt to capture the pedagogical advantages of PBL and of TBL, implemented a unique PBL experience into the ICE/PBL course during the final block of PBL instruction in year 2. PBL cases provided the content knowledge for focused learning. The subsequent, related TBL exercises fostered integration / critical thinking about each of these cases. [See PDF for complete abstract]

Envisioning sustainable water futures in a transdisciplinary learning process: combining normative, explorative, and participatory scenario approaches

Competing water demands for household consumption as well as the production of food, energy, and other uses pose challenges for water supply and sustainable development in many parts of the world. Designing creative strategies and learning processes for sustainable water governance is thus of prime importance. While this need is uncontested, suitable approaches still have to be found. In this article we present and evaluate a conceptual approach to scenario building aimed at transdisciplinary learning for sustainable water governance. The approach combines normative, explorative, and participatory scenario elements. This combination allows for adequate consideration of stakeholders’ and scientists’ systems, target, and transformation knowledge. Application of the approach in the MontanAqua project in the Swiss Alps confirmed its high potential for co-producing new knowledge and establishing a meaningful and deliberative dialogue between all actors involved. The iterative and combined approach ensured that stakeholders’ knowledge was adequately captured, fed into scientific analysis, and brought back to stakeholders in several cycles, thereby facilitating learning and co-production of new knowledge relevant for both stakeholders and scientists. However, the approach also revealed a number of constraints, including the enormous flexibility required of stakeholders and scientists in order for them to truly engage in the co-production of new knowledge. Overall, the study showed that shifts from strategic to communicative action are possible in an environment of mutual trust. This ultimately depends on creating conditions of interaction that place scientists’ and stakeholders’ knowledge on an equal footing.

Collaborative Learning in Context: The Problem with Peer Tutoring

Describes the effects that institutionalization of peer tutoring is having on the teaching-learning relationship.

Feedback von Schülerinnen und Schülern als Quelle des Lernprozesses im Praktikum von Lehramtsstudierenden

Rückmeldungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern zum Unterricht nehmen eine wichtige Rolle zur Verbesserung der Unterrichtsqualität ein. Während der Ausbildung von Lehrpersonen wird dieses Potenzial bisher aber selten genutzt. Der Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse aus dem Forschungsprojekt "Lernen im Praktikum" vor. Befragt wurden 150 Studierende des Lehramts für 7.-9. Klassen (Sekundarstufe 1) zur Bedeutung von Schülerrückmeldungen im Praktikum sowie 1331 Schülerinnen und Schüler aus Praktikumsklassen zum Praktikum und zum Lernprozess der Praktikantinnen und Praktikanten. Die Ergebnisse unterstützen einerseits die Relevanz systematischer Schülerrückmeldungen für das Lernen im Praktikum. Andererseits machen sie auf die Notwendigkeit aufmerksam, die Kriterien, die Schülerbeurteilungen zugrunde liegen, weiter zu erforschen.

Simulation Games - A Creative Tool for Capacity Building: Experience from the Learning for Sustainability Approach

Games that simulate complex realities to be dealt with in teams are an effective tool for fostering interactive learning processes. they link different levels of decision-making in the household, community and societal contexts. Negotiation and harmonisation of different perceptions and interests, be it within or between different households, form the basis of a common strategy for sustainable development.

The development of professor's professional knowledge in Psychology

This work belongs to the Project "Teaching and learning Psychology: a study of the educational practice in professors and beginners". It is part of an investigation program developed in the context of the subject "Didactic and Practical Planning of Psychology teaching" in which we have been working since 1998. This subject is also considered as the final stage of the formative itinerary for Psychology s professors. The reached results show the incidence that the beliefs and professors' representations have in the teaching processes. By getting into the studies centered in the educational knowledge we guide the inquiry around the development of the professor's professional knowledge and particularly the development of their formation. Our proposal contemplates a formation device which incorporates the observation, reflection, evaluation and self-evaluation of the practice in order to facilitate the reconstruction, significance and re-significance of the teaching and learning processes by giving relevance to the development of the teacher professional knowledge. The analysis of teaching practices process reveals that the mediations that cross the knowledge in the being taught instances are constituted in reflections axes. This involves the future professor's relationship with the knowledge and their projection in the construction of the professional identity.

Reflexiones en torno a las TIC en la educación media y la formación de docentes

En este trabajo proponemos discutir algunos puntos clave que atraviesan la problemática de las TIC y su aplicación al ámbito de la educación. En él introducimos algunas experiencias en investigación y educación que, como docentes y formadores de profesores de historia, nos condujeron a explorar el uso de las nuevas tecnologías para pensar y mediar los procesos de aprendizaje. Para ello, nos servimos fundamentalmente de dos herramientas conceptuales, el marco pedagógico-didáctico y el marco psicológico cognitivista. Luego de analizar las principales competencias necesarias desde el punto de vista del alumno para trabajar con TIC, nos detenemos en su impacto cognitivo, sobre todo en lo que respecta a la comprensión de la lectura electrónica. Abordamos, además, una reflexión crítica sobre el papel actual de las TIC en la educación media y en la formación de docentes. Puesto que no se puede negar que las nuevas herramientas de comunicación han modificado la relación que los jóvenes tienen con el acceso a la información y el mundo del conocimiento, nos preguntamos si esta condición implica reformular los esquemas de enseñanza hasta hoy conocidos para incorporar estos nuevos saberes. En definitiva, planteamos cuestiones sobre las ventajas que nos aportan las TIC, su papel como fuentes de conflictos, qué representan hoy en materia de política educativa y cuáles son los desafíos que, como docentes, podemos asumir

The development of professor's professional knowledge in Psychology

This work belongs to the Project "Teaching and learning Psychology: a study of the educational practice in professors and beginners". It is part of an investigation program developed in the context of the subject "Didactic and Practical Planning of Psychology teaching" in which we have been working since 1998. This subject is also considered as the final stage of the formative itinerary for Psychology s professors. The reached results show the incidence that the beliefs and professors' representations have in the teaching processes. By getting into the studies centered in the educational knowledge we guide the inquiry around the development of the professor's professional knowledge and particularly the development of their formation. Our proposal contemplates a formation device which incorporates the observation, reflection, evaluation and self-evaluation of the practice in order to facilitate the reconstruction, significance and re-significance of the teaching and learning processes by giving relevance to the development of the teacher professional knowledge. The analysis of teaching practices process reveals that the mediations that cross the knowledge in the being taught instances are constituted in reflections axes. This involves the future professor's relationship with the knowledge and their projection in the construction of the professional identity.

Reflexiones en torno a las TIC en la educación media y la formación de docentes

En este trabajo proponemos discutir algunos puntos clave que atraviesan la problemática de las TIC y su aplicación al ámbito de la educación. En él introducimos algunas experiencias en investigación y educación que, como docentes y formadores de profesores de historia, nos condujeron a explorar el uso de las nuevas tecnologías para pensar y mediar los procesos de aprendizaje. Para ello, nos servimos fundamentalmente de dos herramientas conceptuales, el marco pedagógico-didáctico y el marco psicológico cognitivista. Luego de analizar las principales competencias necesarias desde el punto de vista del alumno para trabajar con TIC, nos detenemos en su impacto cognitivo, sobre todo en lo que respecta a la comprensión de la lectura electrónica. Abordamos, además, una reflexión crítica sobre el papel actual de las TIC en la educación media y en la formación de docentes. Puesto que no se puede negar que las nuevas herramientas de comunicación han modificado la relación que los jóvenes tienen con el acceso a la información y el mundo del conocimiento, nos preguntamos si esta condición implica reformular los esquemas de enseñanza hasta hoy conocidos para incorporar estos nuevos saberes. En definitiva, planteamos cuestiones sobre las ventajas que nos aportan las TIC, su papel como fuentes de conflictos, qué representan hoy en materia de política educativa y cuáles son los desafíos que, como docentes, podemos asumir

The development of professor's professional knowledge in Psychology

This work belongs to the Project "Teaching and learning Psychology: a study of the educational practice in professors and beginners". It is part of an investigation program developed in the context of the subject "Didactic and Practical Planning of Psychology teaching" in which we have been working since 1998. This subject is also considered as the final stage of the formative itinerary for Psychology s professors. The reached results show the incidence that the beliefs and professors' representations have in the teaching processes. By getting into the studies centered in the educational knowledge we guide the inquiry around the development of the professor's professional knowledge and particularly the development of their formation. Our proposal contemplates a formation device which incorporates the observation, reflection, evaluation and self-evaluation of the practice in order to facilitate the reconstruction, significance and re-significance of the teaching and learning processes by giving relevance to the development of the teacher professional knowledge. The analysis of teaching practices process reveals that the mediations that cross the knowledge in the being taught instances are constituted in reflections axes. This involves the future professor's relationship with the knowledge and their projection in the construction of the professional identity.

Reflexiones en torno a las TIC en la educación media y la formación de docentes

En este trabajo proponemos discutir algunos puntos clave que atraviesan la problemática de las TIC y su aplicación al ámbito de la educación. En él introducimos algunas experiencias en investigación y educación que, como docentes y formadores de profesores de historia, nos condujeron a explorar el uso de las nuevas tecnologías para pensar y mediar los procesos de aprendizaje. Para ello, nos servimos fundamentalmente de dos herramientas conceptuales, el marco pedagógico-didáctico y el marco psicológico cognitivista. Luego de analizar las principales competencias necesarias desde el punto de vista del alumno para trabajar con TIC, nos detenemos en su impacto cognitivo, sobre todo en lo que respecta a la comprensión de la lectura electrónica. Abordamos, además, una reflexión crítica sobre el papel actual de las TIC en la educación media y en la formación de docentes. Puesto que no se puede negar que las nuevas herramientas de comunicación han modificado la relación que los jóvenes tienen con el acceso a la información y el mundo del conocimiento, nos preguntamos si esta condición implica reformular los esquemas de enseñanza hasta hoy conocidos para incorporar estos nuevos saberes. En definitiva, planteamos cuestiones sobre las ventajas que nos aportan las TIC, su papel como fuentes de conflictos, qué representan hoy en materia de política educativa y cuáles son los desafíos que, como docentes, podemos asumir

Timed mind maps using MINDMANAGER & MS-PROJECT for educational innovation

The adaptation to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is becoming a great challenge for the University Community, especially for its teaching and research staff, which is involved actively in the teaching-learning process. It is also inducing a paradigm change for lecturers and students. Among the methodologies used for processes of teaching innovation, system thinking plays an important role when working mainly with mind maps, and is focused to highlighting the essence of the knowledge, allowing its visual representation. In this paper, a method for using these mind maps for organizing a particular subject is explained. This organization is completed with the definition of duration, precedence relationships and resources for each of these activities, as well as with their corresponding monitoring. Mind maps are generated by means of the MINDMANAGER package whilst Ms-PROJECT is used for establishing tasks relationships, durations, resources, and monitoring. Summarizing, a procedure and the necessary set of applications for self organizing and managing (timed) scheduled teaching tasks has been described in this paper.

Timed mind maps using mindmanager & msproject for educational innovation

The adaptation to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is becoming a great challenge for the University Community, especially for its teaching and research staff, which is involved actively in the teaching-learning process. It is also inducing a paradigm change for lecturers and students. Among the methodologies used for processes of teaching innovation, system thinking plays an important role when working mainly with mind maps, and is focused to highlighting the essence of the knowledge, allowing its visual representation. In this paper, a method for using these mind maps for organizing a particular subject is explained. This organization is completed with the definition of duration, precedence relationships and resources for each of these activities, as well as with their corresponding monitoring. Mind maps are generated by means of the MINDMANAGER package whilst Ms-PROJECT is used for establishing tasks relationships, durations, resources, and monitoring. Summarizing, a procedure and the necessary set of applications for self organizing and managing (timed) scheduled teaching tasks has been described in this paper

GLMP for automatic assessment of DFS algorithm learning

We describe how to use a Granular Linguistic Model of a Phenomenon (GLMP) to assess e-learning processes. We apply this technique to evaluate algorithm learning using the GRAPHs learning environment.